Revisiting Low-Risk Thyroid Papillary Microcarcinomas Resected Without Observation: Was Immediate Surgery Necessary?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 523-528

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a   Oda, Hitomi ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Kihara, Minoru ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84957433896     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-015-3184-4     Document Type: Article

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